Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
- Anita Diament
Love, Alternative, Like, Sucker
The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
- Anita Diament
Hollywood, Mary, Turned, Mary Poppins
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
- Anita Diament
Compare, Spanish, Though, Translator
My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
- Anita Diament
Jewish, Six, Mostly, Trajectory
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
- Anita Diament
Husband, Before, Judaism, Converted
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
- Anita Diament
About, Almost, Whitman, Adolescent
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
- Anita Diament
Love, Give, Read, Letters
Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
- Anita Diament
Love, Always, Very, Spheres
Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
- Anita Diament
Song, Play, Will, Lyrics
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
- Anita Diament
Trying, Fiction, Rejections, Explaining
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
- Anita Diament
Book, Country, November, Authors
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
- Anita Diament
Doing, Access, Which, Harvard
I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.
- Anita Diament
Record, Jewish Community, Track Record
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
- Anita Diament
College, Couple, Bookstores, Churches
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
- Anita Diament
Childhood, New, Newark, Jersey
I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
- Anita Diament
Never, Her, Wanted, Mary Poppins
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
- Anita Diament
Practice, Jewish Community, Contemporary
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
- Anita Diament
Book, Through, Before, Publishing
I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
- Anita Diament
Love, Pop, I Love, Music World
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
- Anita Diament
Religion, Dining, Sabbath, Weekly
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
- Anita Diament
Bible, Through, Some, Tradition
Biblical names are hot again.
- Anita Diament
Hot, Again, Names
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
- Anita Diament
Bible, Person, Other, Room
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